Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
W. Clement Stone

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Sun Tzu

Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.
Jim Rohn

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
Walt Whitman

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman